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April Morning
starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Urich, Chad Lowe, Susan Blakely, Meredith Salenger
directed by: Delbert Mann

Used Price: $19.99

Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303682952
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, EP, NTSC
ISBN: 6303682952
Label: Hallmark
Manufacturer: Hallmark
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hallmark
Release Date: November 28, 1996
Running Time: 100 minutes
Studio: Hallmark
Theatrical Release Date: April 24, 1988
Sales Rank: 2481

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Disperse Ye Rebels! Disperse!!
This is a decent film that deserves to be re-issued on DVD. While not a big budget opus like infamous Mel Gibson's THE PATRIOT, this is a much higher quality film overall. While a bit slow in the beginning with family relationships in Lexington, the film picks up when the British at last appear on the screen! There is a nice shot of the British columm deploying impressively into line to face Captain Parker's company. The only problem here is that the British force at this point consisited of six companies of Light Infantry who jogged into town at a fast clip before forming line opposite the militia. This would have been less impressive to show, plus i guess the available re-enactors could not all be shown in Light Infantry garb. So we get the usual mix of line companies, Grenadiers and ... Read More

Rating:

- Lexington in April 1775
This film is set in 1775 Colonial Massachusetts. A peddler is stopped and searched, the British troops find a musket, powder, balls and confiscate them and the wagon (Gun Control!). The peddler stops at a local tavern to tell about this. The people have noticed an increase in British troop patrols. We then meet a family and see a portrayal of life in the 18th century as similar to today. There is a meeting among the men, they discuss the relative military strengths of the Colonial militia to the 5,000 British troops in Boston. [In fact the militia had a long military experience in colonial warfare, the British were less experienced.]

A rider gives the alarm: the British are coming to seize the guns and ammunition stored at Concord where the Continental Congress is meeting. The local ... Read More

Rating:

- Not very impressed
Saw this this on televison.

Lovely scenery. Weapons and costumes appear authentic. Buildings need a little work. Interior shots good. Acting and diolog need a little work.

Overall a Soap Opera.

Really not very impressed with what looks more like a work of revisionism than anything authentic. The Americans appear blood thirsty and looking for trouble. They appear to lack any semblence of militery organization or fighting doctrine. Historicly those are proven far from the truth. Over a third of New England's male population were veterans of the previous war and had generations of combat experience fighting the French and the indians. Some men in the Colonial Militia had literally fired more rounds in combat in the name of Britain than whole regiments serving ... Read More

Rating:

- Family Friendly and Educational
April Morning is a family-friendly video of the first major battle of the American Revolution. The dramatic tension between two generations climaxes with a greater understanding, and a loss. The video is a great addition to a homeschool unit on the Revolution, or a good family night viewing, with discussion of the relationship between father and son. I highly recommend it, and was disappointed that it was out of stock. We watched it on TV the first time, and have not been able to find it since.

Rating:

- Adds Another Level to Social Studies Classes
Yes, the movie is melodramatic and l....o....n....g with the dialogues in the first portion. That's why I don't show the whole thing in the classroom. We start just before the rider shows up with the warnings. I have a typed synopsis of the events leading up to this and explain the tensions of frontier warfare experience, womens' issues vs the male ego, and that this is a MOVIE based on the events. However, the use of reenactors, authentic clothing, and armaments make it somewhat more appealing. Rip Torn's aggression played against the desire to reason things out to prevent war are universal themes that really get the Language Arts teachers smiling with writing prompts for opinion papers. I wish it was rereleased to get the price down. My ancestors were Loyalist Rangers who, along with their ... Read More

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